dirty linen

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Matters of an embarrassing or unsavoury nature that one would normally wish to keep private.

    不可数

    A lot of dirty linen was exposed during the inquiry.

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, linen.

    不可数

    Hotels generate a lot of dirty linen.

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